A good listener is not only popular everywhere, but after a while he gets to know something.

Life is a fatal complaint, and an eminently contagious one.

—Unknown

The secret of a good life is to have the right loyalties and hold them in the right scale of values.

—Unknown

Life is fickle; the fair man doesn't invariably win.

—Unknown

Nature has invented reproduction as a mechanism for life to move forward. As a life force that passes right through us and makes us a link in the evolution of life.

—Unknown

The lessons this life has planted in my heart pertain more to caring than crops, more to Golden Rule than gold, more to the proper choice than to the popular choice.

—Unknown

My parents taught me how to listen to everybody before I made up my own mind. When you listen, you learn. You absorb like a sponge-and your life becomes so much better than when you are just trying to be listened to all the time.

—Wilson Mizner

As I get older, I've learned to listen to people rather than accuse them of things.

—Po Bronson

Know how to listen, and you will profit even from those who talk badly.

—Plutarch

It is the province of knowledge to speak and it is the privilege of wisdom to listen.

—Oliver Wendell Holmes

Maybe I wanted to hear it so badly that my ears betrayed my mind in order to secure my heart.

—Margaret Cho